“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…”
“What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
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Edouard Machery: The literature on cognitive offloading and deskilling should be taken with a serious grain of salt. See literature on video games in the 1980s, see Haidt style literature on social media. The last …
Alondra Nelson: I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the c…
Edouard Machery: The issue, in my opinion, is publication bias and p-hacking. The literature is clearly titled toward finding negative effects - this is what gets in the news etc. As a result I don’t think we can t…
“-Water used at power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be greater than the amount of water used in the data centers themselves. -" $170 billion of AI data-center capacity has been blocked, stalled or canceled since 2024" www.wsj.com/tech/ai…”
“Now that the World Cup, with all of its controversies and complexities, is over, we can all agree on at least one thing: VAR sucks. It is the generative AI of the sports world. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/what-var-t...”
“When AI hiring tools go wrong, vendors say the employer decides. Employers say the system decided. Samonne Montgomery writes that these are not opposite arguments — they are the same institutional dodge.”
“Nobel-Winning US Chemist Will Move to China to Lead AI Institute: “Yaghi …voiced concern about Mr. Trump’s immigration policies, saying that they endanger the nation’s system of universities, companies and governments that promote scientific excellence.” ww…”
“By July 1, states enacted 109 AI laws and 28 data center laws in 2026, writes NYU Center on Technology Policy director Scott Babwah Brennen—despite federal efforts to stop or limit state AI legislation.”
“By July 1, states enacted 109 AI laws and 28 data center laws in 2026, writes NYU Center on Technology Policy director Scott Babwah Brennen—despite federal efforts to stop or limit state AI legislation.”
“Nice overview of our open-access book, Auditing AI in @the-renovator.bsky.social www.democracyrenovator.com/p/july-13-te... mitpress.mit.edu/978026205172...”
“The People-First Chatbot Act is built on a careful foundation- the AI Bill of Rights-and brings real enforcement to protections that matter: safety, non-discrimination, privacy, transparency, and the right to a human alternative. I'm pleased to support it. …”
“By July 1, states enacted 109 AI laws and 28 data center laws in 2026, writes NYU Center on Technology Policy director Scott Babwah Brennen—despite federal efforts to stop or limit state AI legislation.”
M.J. Crockett: Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how muc…
M.J. Crockett: Weizenbaum was an MIT computer scientist who built one of the first chatbots, ELIZA. He wrote the book out of a growing sense of horror as he saw how “extremely short exposures to a relatively simp…
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